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'Shaken Baby' Syndrome: (2); Some positive news from blogger Sue Luttner on her illuminating "On SBS" blog: "Enlightened rulings Outrageous stories."..."A series of promising decisions has offered renewed hope for a few prisoners and parents while also highlighting some of the outrageous circumstances that can surround charges of inflicted pediatric head trauma." (Must Read. HL);

Next: Bulletin: Tim Bosma trial; Hamilton Ontario: When you thought you heard it all! CBC News reports that a trailer containing crucial prosecution evidence - Tim Bosma's truck, key evidence in the murder trial of the two men accused of killing him - was left unsecured during transport to an Ontario Provincial Police forensic facility, "allowing a (cardboard) box to fly out the rear doors onto the highway, where it was run over by an unmarked police car."..."Millard's lawyer, Ravin Pillay, seized the opportunity in court Wednesday to point out that Troubridge couldn't say if anything else had fallen out of the trailer or been disturbed once she wasn't travelling behind it. "You don't know if anything else came out, because you weren't watching it, correct?" he asked. Troubridge said she believed the box was the only thing that fell out....She went back to the same area of the highway that night to look for the box and believes that she found it. "You don't know if it's the same box," Pillay said during cross-examination. "I know it's the same box, I saw it come out of the trailer," she said. But it had also been driven over by several cars, she said. A second box was also recovered by police, but Troubridge said it didn't come from the truck. Bosma's truck was found inside a trailer at the home of Dellen Millard's mother, police officers testified. .. After the tow truck driver pulled over, he secured the trailer doors with a piece of wire he had in his truck, Troubridge testified. Pillay also questioned that decision in cross-examination. "You didn't secure the trailer at that moment with another lock?" Pillay asked. "I didn't have one," she answered."
Previous: Suzanne Johnson: California; 'Shaken Baby' Syndrome; (1): Reuter's correspondent Steve Gorman reports that her case is in the vanguard of new legal challenges..." For decades, pathologists, pediatricians and courts recognized a distinct set of internal head injuries - brain swelling, bleeding on the surface of the brain and behind the eyes – as proof of death by deliberate shaking, even in the absence of other overt signs of violence. But medical consensus has shifted in recent years and research now shows such injuries can be caused by accidental falls from a short height, or even medical conditions such as blood-clotting disorders and latent trauma from a difficult birth, which can manifest weeks later. Johnson, now 71, remains in prison while her bid for exoneration is pending." (Must Read. HL);
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POST: "Enlightened Rulings; Outrageous stories," by Sue Littner, published by "on SBS"  on February 2, 2016.

GIST: "A series of promising decisions has offered renewed hope for a few prisoners and parents while also highlighting some of the outrageous circumstances that can surround charges of inflicted pediatric head trauma."

The entire post  (with details of the enlightened rulings and outrageous stories), can be found at the following link:

http://onsbs.com/2016/02/01/enlightened-rulings-outrageous-stories/

PUBLISHER'S NOTE: 
 
Dear Reader. Keep your eye on the Charles Smith Blog. We are following this case.
 
I have added a search box for content in this blog which now encompasses several thousand posts. The search box is located  near the bottom of the screen just above the list of links. I am confident that this powerful search tool provided by "Blogger" will help our readers and myself get more out of the site.

The Toronto Star, my previous employer for more than twenty incredible years, has put considerable effort into exposing the harm caused by Dr. Charles Smith and his protectors - and into pushing for reform of Ontario's forensic pediatric pathology system. The Star has a "topic" section which focuses on recent stories related to Dr. Charles Smith. It can be found at: 
 http://www.thestar.com/topic/charlessmith

Information on "The Charles Smith Blog Award"- and its nomination process - can be found at:
 
http://smithforensic.blogspot.ca/2013/12/the-charles-smith-award-presented-to_28.html

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